‘Done! Straight in the shop with it. (…) A hundred and fifty guilders.’ In his yard, at the home he built with his own hands, among his five wives, a man wearing white make-up frantically commits an

Over the coming months, visitors to the Print Room exhibition areas of the Gemeentemuseum will have the chance to relive the days of yesteryear. In works on paper by Julie de Graag (1877-1924), Dick

From yellow to pastel shades of purple and green, Le Remorqueur (The Tugboat) by the French artist Auguste Herbin (1882-1960) is an ode to colour. The work from 1907 is a gift to the Kunstmuseum from

Since the beginning of the 1980s, letters, words and short sentences have provided the artist Marc Ruygrok (1953) with the building blocks of his work. A typical feature of this visual syntax is his

Venice may be famous around the world for its Grand Canal, its Bridge of Sighs and the Piazza San Marco, but for centuries the glorious objects produced by the glassblowers of Murano have brought it

The technique Rückriem uses most often is cutting and splitting stone along straight lines. Normally speaking, a sculptor throws away the stone that is cut or split off, and what remains is the

This exhibition will give visitors a chance to see a multitude of top works from the impressive glass collection of Sam Jonker and Valentine Zaremba, earlier this year presented to the Gemeentemuseum

A man with a determined expression, his eyes turned away from the camera. For many of us, it is this image that springs to mind when we think of the Surinamese anti-colonial writer and resistance